Billionaire financier Wilbur Ross' company, International Textile Group, targeted China's burgeoning middle class back in December (see "Ross: Billionaire Ventures Into Chinese Textile Market" ).

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"If you throw municipal bonds into disorder, you're going to have a real world-class problem, " Ross was quoted as saying at a luncheon in New York.

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Since taking ownership of the Dolphins, Ross has been emblematic of the new class of sports franchise owner.

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Ross said that as the country's middle class grows and consumers look to spend money on textiles and furniture, they have limited options.

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Ross and his colleagues offered parallel columns of upper-class (U) speech versus the speech of (non-U) middle-class people trying to attain, or pretend to, upper-class status.

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